Crime Stoppers

Carbondale / Southern Illinois University (SIU) Crime Stoppers is a community program that involves the public, media, the SIU Department of Public Safety and the City of Carbondale Police Department in the fight against crime. Carbondale / SIU Crime Stoppers has recently partnered with the City of Murphysboro / Jackson County Crime Stoppers to provide coverage for the entire Jackson County population.

This provides a unique way for citizens to provide information about criminal activity without having to provide your name, address, or telephone number. Additionally, Carbondale / SIU Murphysboro / Jackson County Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards of up to $1,500 for information that leads to the arrest of the offender.

Crime Stoppers Phone Procedures

Crime Stoppers maintains two easy numbers to remember:

For Carbondale / SIU - 618-549-2677 (COPS)

For Murphysboro / Jackson County - 618-687-2677 (COPS)

The numbers are monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by members of the Carbondale Police Department and Murphysboro Police Department. When you call with information, you will be given a code number known only to you. When you call back to check on the progress of your case, you need only to identify yourself by your code number. If you information results in the arrest of an offender, you become eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,500. Arrangements will be made so that you can receive your reward in cash and protect your identity.

Submit a Tip

The police are seeking information from the Jackson County community about any criminal activity you know about or have witnessed, have credible information about, or activities that seem suspicious. Anyone can call. Tips are not limited to publicized crimes. Information you provide will be distributed to the applicable Department for investigation.

Rewards can be paid out to those persons who call the tip line and provide information. Of course, the police are always wanting information on: the whereabouts of persons with outstanding warrants issued for their arrest; the location of suspected drug houses, rooms, or locations (parks, stores, parking areas); suspicious persons driving, walking, or cruising through neighborhoods or parking lots.

So, please, call the Crime Stoppers tip lines at 618-549-2677 or 618-687-2677. Anonymous tips may also be made by filling out the online crime stoppers form.

Help Your Community

Please help yourself, along with your county, its communities and the university campus by using these numbers if you witness, or have any information pertaining to, a crime. Cash rewards for information which leads to an arrest are also made anonymously. You have nothing to lose and your neighborhood has everything to gain if a criminal is identified and/or removed.